2006 Bowman Chrome is a 224-card set released in August, 2006. This was the first year of the new MLB-mandated "rookie card" rules, and as a result, all the Bowman brands were forced into a realignment.

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2006 Bowman Chrome is a 224-card set released in August, 2006. This was the first year of the new MLB-mandated "rookie card" rules, and as a result, all the Bowman brands were forced into a realignment. Beginning in 2006, a player had to actually have played in a Major League game to appear in a MLB-licensed trading card set. Those players making their Major League debut in the current season (or late in the previous season) would be entitled to have a standardized "ROOKIE CARD" icon on their card.

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In the case of the Bowman brands, whose stock-in-trade has been to feature hundreds of Minor League "prospects" in order to have their rookie cards years before they ever played in a Major League game (if ever), this meant that those players would now be featured in a Prospects "insert" -- an "insert" that just happens to look a lot like, and produced in roughly the same quantities as, the base set.

'''NOTE:''' As this was the first year for MLB's rookie card rules, every player in this subset has the "ROOKIE CARD" icon. Unfortunately, the bulk of these players had their "true" rookie issued before 2006 (quite often in a Bowman-branded product). Those players who have the "ROOKIE CARD" icon on their card, but whose "true" rookie was issued in a previous year are designated with a "(RC)".

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Description

2006 Bowman Chrome is a 224-card set released in August, 2006. This was the first year of the new MLB-mandated "rookie card" rules, and as a result, all the Bowman brands were forced into a realignment. Beginning in 2006, a player had to actually have played in a Major League game to appear in a MLB-licensed trading card set. Those players making their Major League debut in the current season (or late in the previous season) would be entitled to have a standardized "ROOKIE CARD" icon on their card.

In the case of the Bowman brands, whose stock-in-trade has been to feature hundreds of Minor League "prospects" in order to have their rookie cards years before they ever played in a Major League game (if ever), this meant that those players would now be featured in a Prospects "insert" -- an "insert" that just happens to look a lot like, and produced in roughly the same quantities as, the base set.

Rookies

NOTE: As this was the first year for MLB's rookie card rules, every player in this subset has the "ROOKIE CARD" icon. Unfortunately, the bulk of these players had their "true" rookie issued before 2006 (quite often in a Bowman-branded product). Those players who have the "ROOKIE CARD" icon on their card, but whose "true" rookie was issued in a previous year are designated with a "(RC)".

201 Anderson Hernandez (RC)

202 Jose Capellan (RC)

203 Jeremy Accardo RC

204 Hanley Ramirez (RC)

205 Matt Capps (RC)

206 Jonathan Papelbon (RC)

207 Chuck James (RC)

208 Matt Cain (RC)

209 Cole Hamels (RC)

210 Jason Botts (RC)

211 Lastings Milledge (RC)

212 Conor Jackson (RC)

213 Yusmeiro Petit (RC)

214 Alay Soler RC

215 Willy Aybar (RC)

216 Adam Loewen (RC)

217 Justin Verlander (RC)

218 Francisco Liriano (RC)

219 Kenji Johjima RC

220 Craig Hansen RC

Autographed Rookies

Although not serial-numbered, it's estimated that each player signed around 1500 copies of their base Autographed Rookie.

221 Prince Fielder (RC)

222 Josh Barfield (RC)

223 Fausto Carmona (RC)

224 James Loney (RC)

Kenji Johjima Autograph

Kenji Johjima signed a limited number of copies of his base card. Production was never revealed, but it's been estimated at around 500.

219a Kenji Johjima

Prospects

BC111 Koby Clemens

BC112 Lance Broadway

BC113 Cameron Maybin

BC114 Mike Aviles

BC115 Kyle Blanks

BC116 Chris Dickerson

BC117 Sean Gallagher

BC118 Jamar Hill

BC119 Garrett Mock

BC120 Russ Rohlicek

BC121 Clete Thomas

BC122 Elvis Andrus

BC123 Brandon Moss

BC124 Mark Holliman

BC125 Jose Tabata

BC126 Corey Wimberly

BC127 Bobby Wilson

BC128 Edward Mujica

BC129 Hunter Pence

BC130 Adam Heether

BC131 Andy Wilson

BC132 Radhames Liz

BC133 Garrett Patterson

BC134 Carlos Gomez

BC135 Jared Lansford

BC136 Jose Arredondo

BC137 Renee Cortez

BC138 Francisco Rosario

BC139 Brian Stokes

BC140 Will Thompson

BC141 Ernesto Frieri

BC142 Jose Mijares

BC143 Jeremy Slayden

BC144 Brandon Fahey

BC145 Jason Windsor

BC146 Shawn Nottingham

BC147 Dallas Trahern

BC148 Jon Niese

BC149 A.J. Shappi

BC150 Jordan Pals

BC151 Tim Moss

BC152 Steve Marek

BC153 Mat Gamel

BC154 Sean Henn

BC155 Matthew Guillory

BC156 Brandon Jones

BC157 Gary Galvez

BC158 Shane Lindsay

BC159 Jesus Reina

BC160 Lorenzo Cain

BC161 Chris Britton

BC162 Yovani Gallardo

BC163 Matt Walker

BC164 Shaun Cumberland

BC165 Ryan Patterson

BC166 Michael Hollimon

BC167 Eude Brito

BC168 John Bowker

BC169 James Avery

BC170 John Bannister

BC171 Juan Ciriaco

BC172 Manuel Corpas

BC173 Leo Rosales

BC174 Tim Kennelly

BC175 Adam Russell

BC176 Jeremy Hellickson

BC177 Ryan Klosterman UER

BC178 Evan Meek

BC179 Steve Murphy

BC180 Scott Feldman

BC181 Pablo Sandoval

BC182 Dexter Fowler

BC183 Jairo Cuevas

BC184 Andrew Pinckney

BC185 Marino Salas

BC186 Justin Christian

BC187 Ching-Lung Lo

BC188 Randy Roth

BC189 Andy Sonnanstine

BC190 Josh Outman

BC191 Yuber Rodriguez

BC192 Hainley Statia

BC193 Kevin Estrada

BC194 Jeff Karstens

BC195 Corey Coles

BC196 Gustavo Espinoza

BC197 Brian Horwitz

BC198 Landon Jacobsen

BC199 Ben Krosschell

BC200 Jason Jaramillo

BC201 Josh Wilson

BC202 Jason Ray

BC203 Brent Dlugach

BC204 Cesar Jimenez

BC205 Eric Haberer

BC206 Felipe Paulino

BC207 Alcides Escobar

BC208 Jose Ascanio

BC209 Yoel Hernandez

BC210 Geoff Vandel

BC211 Travis Denker

BC212 Ramon Alvarado

BC213 Welinson Baez

BC214 Chris Kolkhorst

BC215 Emiliano Fruto

BC216 Luis Cota

BC217 Mark Worrell

BC218 Cla Meredith

BC219 Emmanuel Garcia

BC220 B.J. Szymanski

Autographed Prospects

NOTES

Although not serial-numbered, it's estimated that each player signed around 1500 copies of their base Autographed Prospect.

Cards #BC222 and #BC246 packed out as redemption cards that expired August 31st, 2008.

BC221 Alex Gordon

BC222 Mark Pawelek EXCH

BC223 Justin Upton

BC224 Sean West

BC225 Tyler Greene

BC226 Josh Kinney

BC227 Pedro Lopez

BC228 Troy Patton

BC229 Chris Iannetta

BC230 Jared Wells

BC231 Brandon Wood

BC232 Josh Geer

BC233 Cesar Carrillo

BC234 Franklin Gutierrez

BC235 Matt Garza

BC236 Eli Iorg

BC237 Trevor Bell

BC238 Jeff Lyman

BC239 Jon Lester

BC240 Kendrys Morales

BC241 J. Brent Cox

BC242 Jose Bautista

BC243 Josh Sullivan

BC244 Brandon Snyder

BC245 Elvin Puello

BC246 Henry Sanchez EXCH

BC247 Jacob Marceaux

Parallels

All 224 base cards and all 135 Prospects are available in the following Refractor parallels.